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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: My God my Father blissful name (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: My God my Father blissful name

Topic: God/Father

Writer: Anne Steele

Composer: Thomas Hastings

Meter: CM

Tune: Edgeworth

Hymn Number: 291

Page Number: 096, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

MY GOD, my Father-blissful name!-
O may I call thee mine?
May I with sweet assurance claim
A portion so divine?


This only can my fears control,
And bid my sorrows fly:
What harm can ever reach my soul
Beneath my Father's eye?


Whate'er thy providence denies,
I calmly would resign;
For thou art good and just and wise;
O bend my will to thine.


Whate'er thy sacred will ordains,
O give me strength to bear;
And let me know my Father reigns,
And trust his tender care.